Chap. VI.

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P. VI.

T H E T E X T. T H E CO M M E N T ARY.
I F TER theſe things Jeſus (a) 1 (a) Rather, went away by the ſide of
went over the ſea of Galilee, the ſea of
(ſee note on Matthew
Galilee
which is the ſea of Tiberias. iv. 15.) He went to a deſert place be
longing to the city of Bethſaida, Luke
-1X. IO
2 And a great multitude followed him,
becauſe they ſaw his miracles which he did
on them that were diſeaſed.
3 And Jeſus went up into a mountain,
ſat

and there he with his diſciples.

(A).
of

And (b) the paſſover, feaſt the (b) See note

4
4

Jews, was nigh.

(c)

When (c) Jeſus then lifted up

his

See Matthew xiv. 15, &c. Mark

T

5
5

vi.

eyes, and (d) ſaw great company come 35, &c. and Luke ix. 12, &c.
a

ſaith unto Philip, Whence Ib. (d) Rather, ſaw, that

he

unto him, great com

a
ſhall we buy bread that theſe may eat

to to
pany was coming unto him. Jeſus ſeems
have gone down from the mountain, and
have fed the company plain near the
in
a
of

foot
5.
it.

See ver.
I

prove him; for

he

he to

(And this ſaid

6

-
he

himſelf knew what would do)

Philip anſwered him, (e) Two hun (e) Their two hundred pennies were
7.

of

our money.
of

dred penny-worth bread not ſufficient worth about £6. 9s. 2d.
is

them may take

of

for them, that every one

little.
a

his diſciples, Andrew,

of

One Simon
8

Peters brother, ſaith unto him,

N O T.
S.
E.

to be

(A) V.4. ſtaff, &c.] There does not ſeem any reaſon for the evangeliſt's
to

The paſſºver,
a

or
to

the paſs-over,
of

inſerting this verſe, nothing this chapter having any relation the feaſt
in

Voffius, and Mr. Mann (in De Anno emortuali Chriſti,

G.
J.
of

any other the Jewiſh feaſts.

think, that the whole
of an

opinion, that the word rázza interpolation

of

and
p.

is

173.) are
I

ſo; becauſe feaſt (probably, the feaſt pentecoſ), and

of
in

mention made
v.

ch.
is
1.

verſe
is

by

of
no

tabernacles, between which two feaſt appointed Moſes

It of

the law
of

ch. vii.
in

the feaſt
2.

of

preſent
at

intervened. does not appear from the evangeliſt's account, that Jeſus was feaſt
a
all

the paſs-over here mentioned; and yet ſeems probable, that he, who fulfilled righteouſneſs,
it

nigh
at

paſs-over ſaid) then

of

feaſt the which (as here was

is

would not have been abſent from

a

hand.

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